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He already has the motherboard, it's better for him to spend that money on a GTX 960 than go for a new motherboard and settle for something like a 260x or 750ti. It'll still run most new games ultra 1080p with 60FPS, mostly older games that might struggle.

AMD is not terribad and good for budget setups. Hooooowever their Bulldozer/Piledriver CPUs are bit bad (lose to sandy bridge CPUs) and some claim it significantly helps with games to have intel cpu. Also AMD is releasing their next line of CPUs at some point which should have considerable better performance as they started from scratch and ditched the "moar cores nauw" thing.

Links to users' thread list who have made analytical/statistical/mathematical/cool posts on Symthic:

3VerstsNorth - Analysis of game mechanics in BF4 (tickrates, effects of tickrate, etc)